Susan C. Vaughan is an American author, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
She serves as the Director of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (2017-),[1] Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
Vaughan has written widely on gender, sexuality and the neuroscience behind psychotherapy.
[2] She is the author of three books: The Talking Cure: The Science Behind Psychotherapy,[3][4][5][6] Half Empty, Half Full: Understanding the Psychological Roots of Optimism,[7] and Viagra: A Guide to the Phenomenal Potency Promoting Drug.
[8] Vaughan graduated from Harvard College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.,[9][10]